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  • 1Tennis games — are often used to help players of all abilities to practice the different strokes involved in tennis. The number of participants needed varies from as few as two players to as many players as can fit on a tennis court. These games are often used… …

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  • 2Tennis in China — is a rapidly growing sport that has received much private and public support, and has today become firmly entrenched in the Chinese consciousness as one of the most popular. Tennis is now the third most popular sport on television in China,… …

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  • 3tennis — ► NOUN ▪ a game for two or four players, who use rackets to strike a ball over a net stretched across a grass or clay court. See also REAL TENNIS(Cf. ↑real tennis). ORIGIN originally denoting real tennis: apparently from Old French tenez take,… …

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  • 4Tennis — Ten nis, n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see {Tenable}).] A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open… …

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  • 5Tennis court — Tennis Ten nis, n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see {Tenable}).] A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the …

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  • 6tennis — (n.) mid 14c., most likely from Anglo Fr. tenetz hold! receive! take!, from O.Fr. tenez, imperative of tenir to hold, receive, take, which was used as a call from the server to his opponent. The original version of the game (a favorite sport of… …

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  • 7take down (someone) — 1. to spoil or destroy someone s life. Some journalists just want to find a celebrity s weak points and take him or her down. She claims there was a government plot to take down outspoken community leaders. 2. to defeat a competitor. Today in… …

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  • 8Tennis at the 2007 Pan American Games — will be played at the Marapendi Club, which has previously hosted Davis Cup ties. Due to the 2007 Davis Cup, the men s competition was delayed one week.Fact|date=August 2007 The women s events will take between July 18 and 22, with the men s… …

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  • 9take to something — take to (something) to like to do something. The children have really taken to tennis …

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  • 10take to — (something) to like to do something. The children have really taken to tennis …

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